Improvement in gates



e. GILBERT.

GATE.

No.174,22 6. Patented Fe'b.29,1876.

U T- b A E PATENT OFF c'.

GEORGE GILBERT, OF MICHIGAN CENTRE, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT In GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,226, dated February 29, 1876; application filed I October 19, 1875. I

To all whom it may coacern: I

Be t known that I, GEORGE GILBERT, of Michigan Centre, in the county. of Jackson and State of'Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Farm-Gates, of which the following is a specification: f

My-invention relates to an improvement in farm-gates, and has for its object to simplify and cheapen the'construction of the same;

and it consists in the novel manner of hanging the gate, and in the peculiar construction of the heel-post and-heel end of the gate to form the hangings,as more fully-hereinafter set forth.

the bar B there is a similar recess, b. The

gate' represented is a winter or snow gate, having its lower part so hung as to be folded .up to swing over snow-drifts, but my improvernent is alike applicable to allother swing gates. The heel-post is doublethatis to say,

it is constructed of two uprights, O C, driven into the ground the thickness of the bars B y B apart in both directions, so that the latter can pass between them lengthwise and crosswise. The projecting heel ends of the bars B B are faced with hoop-iron a all around a, at top and bottom.

the edges.' The heel-posts have one or more blocks, D, interposed between them for the bars B B to slide over. The edges of these blocks are also faced with a hoop-iron band,

E is a hook-block, interposed between the heel-posts at the top,

the hook end being received in the recess b of the uppergate-bar when the gate is closed.

E is a similar hook-block between the posts,

at the plane of the lower bar of the gate, its hook end being turned up to engage with the recess of the latter when the gate is closed.

I It'will .be noticed that when the gate is closed there will be a pull upon the upper hook-block and a thrustupon the lower one,

thus keeping the gate level. When the gate is swung open, the upper gate-bar hooks behind the hook end of the upper hook-block, while the thrust ot'v the heel end of the lower bar is taken against a band-iron segment, F, whose ends are secured to the edges of the heel-posts, so that no hinges are required for this gate, which can easily be constructed by the farmer in a few hours, having these ordinary materials on hand.

What I claim as my invention is The combination of .a gate having the notched bars B B with the heel-posts O 0,

having the spacer-blocks D, hook-blocks E E,

and segment F, substantially as described.

. GEORGE GILBERT.

Witnesses:

H. F.. EBERTS, H. S SPRAeuE. 

